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Lauren's Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies Reviews

Editor's note: This recipe appears as part of our editors' Christmas Cookie Swap, 10 beloved holiday recipes from the editors of Epicurious and Gourmet Live.

This family favorite pairs the winning combination of chocolate and peanut butter. Almond extract enhances the nuttiness of the cookie, but the more standard vanilla can also be used. Natural peanut butter won't work for these cookies, but chunky or freshly ground will. Best of all, they're sealed with a kiss.

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4/4

Cookies look beautiful, but a little too much sugar for my taste. I would either cut back on the sugar or go back to my tried and true recipe.

nboaman
/ 10.25.2015

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I needed 4 dozen cookies fast, and was happy to see this recipe. It is butter instead of Crisco, big improvement, and the almond extract was new to me, and I like the flavor. I made 4 dozen, smaller cookies but pretty delicious!

sweetiepetitti
from Germantown, TN
/ 09.21.2015

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These cookies were super easy to make and they came out absolutely perfect and delicious. I will definitely make these again in the future.

MichelleGmommaof3
from Tucson, Az
/ 12.24.2014

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I would love to make theses again. The kisses where great.

Nataliepb
from Carmon NC
/ 12.20.2014

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Loved them, but I was delayed in getting the kisses on them and therefore they didn't melt in and stick. Great balance in taste, I used the almond extract, which was perfect and they were not too sweet.

Sandra112
from Guanacaste, Costa Rica
/ 07.17.2014

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The almond extract was so distracting. They didn't taste like PB at all.

leslier88
from Arlington, VA
/ 07.05.2014

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like another reviewer did I made these as 'Peanut Butter cookies', only because I didn't have any Kisses on hand. They stand strongly on their own as simply Peanut Butter Cookies. I made them exactly as described except as soon as they came out of the oven I made two 'cris-cros marks' on top of each cookie with the tines of a fork. Doing this flattened them out a little bit to look like a regular cookie. These had a nicely prominent peanutty flavor, are crisp on the outside & a little bit chewy on the inside after cooling once out of the oven for about an hour. I'm looking forward to making them again with the addition of the Kisses.I will be making these again.

Me_Want_Chocolate
/ 03.28.2014

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Really nice recipe. Crispy on the outside, tender and chewy on the inside with just the right amount of peanut butter. Just FYI, I used reduced fat peanut butter because that was in my cupboard. I was a bit afraid it could affect the texture but, as I say, the results were great. One other "substitution"...I wanted to make them a little more sophisticated so instead of a Hershey kiss, I used half of a Lindt truffle in each. Divine! But, a word to the wise if you want to try that...the truffle has a lower melting point than the kiss so wait a bit longer before sticking them into the warm cookies. My first one melted all over the place! Lol.

nylvod
from NJ
/ 12.29.2013

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Excellent version of these classic cookies. They are rich and yummy. My 13 year old made them, followed the recipe exactly, they turned out great and they look exactly like the photo and taste fantastic. I highly recommend making these!

krf
from Bellevue, WA
/ 12.23.2013

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This is a fabulous recipe! The cookies come out moist and chewy with just the right amount of PB flavor. I'll definitely make this recipe again.